The UK’s CMA plans to investigation Broadcom’s proposed $61B VMware acquisition, following similar investigations by the European Commission and FTC (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU antitrust regulators plan to open a full-scale investigation into Broadcom’s proposed $61B VMware acquisition  —  U.S. chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) is set to face a setback in its $61 billion bid for cloud computing company VMware (VMW.N) with EU antitrust regulators poised to open …

Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
The SEC charges VMware with misleading investors by obscuring financial performance; VMware agrees to pay $8M to settle without denying or admitting charges  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday it has charged cloud computing company VMware Inc (VMW.N) …

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
VMware and Google’s Mandiant say a sophisticated hacker group has been installing backdoors in VMware’s virtualization software on multiple targets’ networks  —  For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software.  Now one group has put them into practice.

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: the FTC opens an investigation into Amazon’s $1.7B iRobot acquisition, requesting documents from both companies; investigations typically take a year  —  Federal antitrust agency sought records about deal from Amazon and iRobot this week  —  WASHINGTON—Federal antitrust enforcers …

Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz:
The UK’s CMA details its concerns with Microsoft’s Activision acquisition, including withholding games from rivals; Microsoft argues Sony is the dominant player  —  The CMA expects the deal to impact PlayStation and game streaming  —  The Competition and Markets Authority has detailed …

Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
European Commission opens an in-depth investigation into Microsoft’s proposed $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition, setting a March 23 deadline for phase two  —  Microsoft Corp.’s proposed $69 billion takeover of games developer Activision Blizzard Inc. faces an in-depth European Union probe …